| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | CAE Software, Engineering Services, Data Acquisition Systems |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Headquarters | Leuven, Belgium |
| Key people | Dr. Ir. Urbain Vandeurzen, Founder and CEO Dr. Ir. Jan Leuridan, Chief Technical Officer Dirk Van Den Berghen, Chief Sales Operations Officer Rudi Weekers, Chief HR Officer |
| Employees | In Belgium 350, worldwide 1200 (FY 2010) |
| Website | www.lmsintl.com |
LMS International is an engineering services and software company, headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. The company employs about 890 people in 31 offices across the world. [1]
LMS is a partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. LMS offers a combination of 1D and 3D virtual simulation software, testing systems, and engineering services. Originally, the name LMS stood for Leuven Measurement Systems, but that name is no longer used. [2]
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As a spin-off of the K.U.Leuven’s PMA department [3], LMS was formed in 1980. LMS started out as a company specialized in noise and vibration [4] and physical prototype testing. In 1983, LMS develops its first computer guided measuring system. Later, in 1987, LMS introduces the new generation of measuring systems based on UNIX-workstations.
In the eighties, LMS expands its business by setting up an international network of branch and sales offices. The first branches open in Europe’s major car manufacturing countries - Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom - and later on, in 1988, it also starts an office in the United States.
The greater industry importance of virtual testing and simulation prompted LMS to innovate and transform itself into a combined test and simulation company, driven to tackle key engineering challenges. As a result, the company continues to grow and during the nineties, opens offices in the Far East. LMS mainly expands, however, by acquiring several of its suppliers and competitors. Examples are: Numerical, SKALAR Computer, Difa Measuring Systems and CADSI.
At 2007 LMS bought IMAGINE and acquired a French supplier of 1D multiphysics simulation solutions for mechanical and mechatronic systems. Thanks to the combination of multi-domain 1D and 3D (CAE) simulation software, LMS is now the only player on the market to offer a complete software platform to model and simulate intelligent systems in cars, airplanes, and other complex mechanical products.[5][6]
The last acquisition dates at 2010, when LMS acquired Emmeskay, a provider of advanced simulation technology solutions for model-based systems engineering (MBSE). This acquisition is an important milestone for LMS.[7][8]
In addition to data acquisition systems, the company has expanded into simulation software. The software is used for modeling mechanical systems, with a special emphasis on the sound, vibration and durability attributes of the modeled systems.
Product Portfolio:
Simulation software platform to analyze multi-domain, intelligent systems and predict and optimize multi-disciplinary performance.
LMS Imagine.Lab SysDM is a solution to manage system data originating from LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim and other system simulation tools, providing a collaborative environment for Model-Based Systems Engineering data. It is a repository system where engineers can create an organizational model for system simulation data, facilitating classification, query and retrieval according to engineer relevant schemas.
Software suite to simulate and optimize the performance of mechanical systems for structural integrity, noise and vibration, durability, system dynamics, ride and handling, dynamic motion and other attributes.
Integrated one-platform, scalable software suite for test-based engineering; includes structural and acoustic testing, environmental testing, rotating machinery testing, vibration control, ground vibration testing [9], reporting and data sharing.
Range of data acquisition hardware for laboratory and field measurements
Noise and vibration analyzer; portable system combining data acquisition and analyzing capabilities.
LMS CADA-X is an HP-UX-based suite of software for acoustic, durability and structural dynamics engineering. The LMS CADA-X system enables integrated durability engineering process, from field data import and validation, through fatigue analysis and load synthesis, to replay on multi-axis test rigs [10].
Can handle most tasks in general data acquisition & DSP, rotating machinery, structural analysis and acoustics, including sound power and sound intensity measurements. It comes in a highly portable unit[11].
Acoustic Noise Prediction software (using Boundary Element Method). SYSNOISE predicts the vibro-acoustic performance at the softprototype stage [12].
DADS Stands for: Dynamic Analysis Design System [13]. Is a multi-body simulation technology that provides mechanical engineers and designers with the ability to assemble, simulate, and animate mechanical systems.
LMS FALANCS is a computer-aided durability engineering package that enables fatigue life prediction (stress-life and strain-life approach) in a test environment based on measured strain signals or in a virtual prototyping context based on an Finite-Element calculation [14].
LMS Gateway allows to compare FE predictions of dynamic models with Test data (also FE-FE and Test-Test Comparison) through Modal Assurance Criterion (MAC), Frequency Assurance Criterion (FRAC), Orthogonality Check etc...
LMS RAYNOISE is a computer-aided acoustic design and analysis system for the architect or building acoustician. It uses advanced acoustic ray tracing methods to predict the sound field produced from multiple sources at any location inside a 3D space and in the far field outside. It automatically handles complex interactions - such as multiple reflections from different surfaces. The results are shown in a variety of ways – from 1/3 octave spectra and echograms, to colormapped SPLs and a choice of sound quality metrics.